{"id":155930,"date":"2014-06-24T01:16:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2014\/06\/24\/ex-ncp-mlas-meet-bjp-leaders-in-delhi\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T01:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T01:16:11","slug":"ex-ncp-mlas-meet-bjp-leaders-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2014\/06\/24\/ex-ncp-mlas-meet-bjp-leaders-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NCP MLAs meet BJP leaders in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of the three former NCP legislators who recently joined BJP through a merger, along with state unit president Dr.Chuba Ao, are in Delhi meeting BJP national leaders.
\nDr. Chuba informed Nagaland Post from Delhi that Imtilemba Sangtam MLA, could not join the team owing to health issues though he along with Dr. T.M Lotha and Mmhonlumo Kikon met BJP national leaders Monday morning.
\nHe also informed that the BJP national cell , comprising of former Supreme Court judges, went through all the merger papers submitted and found them to be in order and cleared them.
\nDr. Chuba also said the BJP national party leaders had accepted the merger earlier before it took effect and as per its rule, authorized him to accept the merger. After the clearance, the merger of the NCP Nagaland unit with the state BJP was formally done on June 16 he said.
\nIt may also be noted, that the three legislators who had merged the NCP with the BJP and officially declared it on June 16 were yet to receive the assent of the Speaker of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. It was informed that the Speaker had returned to the state capital Monday after being out of station for a few days .
\nNagaland unit of the NCP had maintained earlier, that its national party president Sharad Pawar had written to the Speaker requesting the latter not to accept the merger since the three MLAs had been suspended from the party. The state NCP has also maintained that since the three had not resigned from the party before joining BJP, they could not be members of both parties. Further, the NCP unit had on June 21, also written to the NLA speaker to disqualify the three MLAs.
\nCalls made to the Speaker to enquire about the case went unanswered. 
\nImtilemba responds to NCP state unit office bearers<\/span>
\nResponding to the various claims that NCP and BJP state units\u2019 \u201cmerger\u201d took place without proper consultation within state NCP, MLA Imtilemba Sangtam Monday said several rounds of consultations were held in different places on the issue with party ranks and files.
\nIn a press release, Imtilemba claimed that the merger took place in the interest of general public and for the development and prosperity of the state. He said that those who have decided to join the BJP saw \u201cno political future with NCP\u201d and moreover NCP was an alliance partner of UPA at the centre. The former NCP party men felt that it was \u201cembarrassing\u201d to be a part of DAN alliance partner in the state while the NCP was part of the UPA.
\nAfter joining BJP, the DAN alliance partner has been further strengthened under the leadership of chief minister T.R. Zeliang, said Imtilemba. He said that on June 16, the NCP state executive along three MLAs and party workers unanimously resolved to merge with BJP. Claiming that the three MLAs were now BJP members, Imtilemba said it was unfortunate that NCP party suspended them when the question of suspension and expulsion did not arise in this case. He also said that BJP state unit has whole heartedly accepted the merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two of the three former NCP legislators who recently joined BJP through a merger, along with state unit president Dr.Chuba Ao, are in Delhi meeting BJP national leaders. Dr. Chuba informed Nagaland Post from Delhi that Imtilemba Sangtam MLA, could not join the team owing to health issues though he along with Dr. T.M Lotha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}